VG Insights, a platform for market research and analysis of the gaming industry, has published the statistics of the STALKER 2 game. According to its data, Ukrainian players have purchased 16% of the approximately 1.4 million copies sold, second only to gamers from the United States.
VG Insights, a platform for market research and analysis of the gaming industry, has published the statistics of the STALKER 2 game. According to its data, Ukrainian players have purchased 16% of the approximately 1.4 million copies sold, second only to gamers from the United States.
VG Insights indicates that on the day of release on November 20, STALKER 2 sold half a million copies, and the bar of 1 million was taken two days after the release of the project, which was reported by the developers themselves.
As of November 24, 1.4 million copies were sold, the service claims. The top buyer countries included:
The remaining countries have purchased a total of 48% of copies of STALKER 2. As of November 27, VG Insights shows that STALKER 2 has already purchased 1.5 million copies, and the game’s estimated revenue is over $70 million. For almost a week after the release, the average player spent 12.4 hours in the project.
At the same time, the rating of the Ukrainian game on Steam and in review aggregators continues to slowly decrease. STALKER 2 currently holds a score of 73 based on 63 reviews on metacritic and a score of 74 based on 73 reviews on OpenCritic. The game’s Steam score, based on player feedback, has a «mostly favorable» rating, but the percentage of positive reviews has dropped from 80% to 78%.
This is due to the technical problems of the project — despite the words of the founder of the GSC Game World studio, Serhiy Hryhorovych, that " there are so few bugs that it is no longer a shame to release them «, the bugs and optimization of STALKER 2 remain the weakest point of the project, which many reviewers complain about and players.
Studio GSC Game World has already revealed what fixes will be included in the first major post-release patch, which will appear this week.
